Book: The Forgotten Garden
Author: Kate Morton
Pages: 560
This is my 22nd read for the year
This is the story across generations of The (fictional) Blackhurst family. Spanning from 1900 up to 2005, the women in this story are either keeping secrets or trying to get to the bottom of a family mystery. Cassandra - a young woman in 2005 is the granddaughter of Nell. Nell raised Cassandra when her mother took off, and when Nell dies, she leaves Cassandra a small cottage in England. Cassandra travels from Australia to England to discover why her grandmother had a cottage no one knew existed and what made her buy it in the first place. This starts to unravel Nell's past and leads Cassandra to find family she never knew she had. The puzzle pieces start to fit together as the story weaves between the present and the past.
This was a pretty good book. I have read one other Morton book (The Secret Keeper) and really enjoyed it. I do like multiple timeline books especially when they pull all together to make a well rounded story. I will admit, though, that this one lacked a good flow. There was too much of "keeping the reader in the dark for no reason" that I always dislike. Question without answers continued to mount, and in the end, I wasn't surprised to find out the big secret. The threads of the story kind of came together without much explanation about how each character got there. Overall it is well written, but the story was just a bit lacking.
Stars: 4
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